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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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